Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Zerofootprint Youth Calculator

Subject Area

Science

Grade(s)

5

Overview

This online interactive asks students questions about their daily activities. After answering all of the questions, students are presented with their daily carbon dioxide emissions based on their activities. Each student's results will be compared with the average American's daily carbon footprint. The interactive also provides students with methods to reduce their carbon footprint. 

    Science (2015) Grade(s): 5

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    Collect and organize scientific ideas that individuals and communities can use to protect Earth’s natural resources and its environment (e.g., terracing land to prevent soil erosion, utilizing no-till farming to improve soil fertility, regulating emissions from factories and automobiles to reduce air pollution, recycling to reduce overuse of landfill areas).

    Unpacked Content

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    Vocabulary

    • Natural Resource
    • Scientific idea
    • Individual
    • Community
    • Terracing
    • Erosion
    • Soil
    • No-till farming
    • Fertility
    • Emissions
    • Pollution
    • Recycling
    • Landfill

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Human activities in agriculture, industry, and everyday life can have major effects, both positive and negative, on the land, vegetation, streams, ocean, air, and even outer space.
    • Individuals and communities are doing things to help protect Earth's resources and environments.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Obtain and combine information from books and/or other reliable media to explain how individuals and communities can protect Earth's natural resources and its environment.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Individual communities interact with components of environmental systems and can have both positive and negative effects.

    Scientific and Engineering Practices

    Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

    Crosscutting Concepts

    Systems and System Models
    Link to Resource

    CR Resource Type

    Interactive/Game

    Resource Provider

    https://calc.zerofootprint.net/
    Accessibility
    License

    License Type

    Custom
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